Painter
Member of Flag since:
2019
Artists Bio:
My primary medium is acrylic on canvas or wood panel.
I am from Virginia, living near Washington, D.C. where I frequented the galleries and museums from an early age.
I attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. The Fine Arts department was a rich place to learn about the broad range of creative thinking and expression, from Installation, Performance, Film, and Conceptual art, but I was at heart a painter.
After graduation, I moved to San Francisco, where I worked as an archival picture framer. Soon I was working for Crown Point Press, a prestigious intaglio printing press and gallery, where I framed the artwork for Richard Diebenkorn, John Cage, Wayne Thiebaud, Francesco Clemente and many others.
After working for several years as curator for a nonprofit art gallery, I attended San Francisco State University, receiving my MFA in painting. I moved to Florida soon after, and taught Art at Daytona State College, and high school and middle school for the Volusia County School District.
I feel that my art is as much a reflection of our times, and my experiences in life, as it is a love of color relationships, atmosphere, and striving for visual unity.
I am a member of Florida Artists’ Group, (FLAG), Beaux Arts of Central Florida, of which I am also the current President, and The Art League of Daytona Beach.
Artist Statement:
My purpose in making art is to use the medium of paint to capture significant moments in an environment that is changing more quickly than it appears to be, as it relates to human existence.
The reference to landscape appears frequently in my work, but not in the traditional, 19th century academic sense. There’s a lot of change in size relationships of objects and distance in space. My paintings are sometimes informed by photographs I take on my nature walks, when I use the technology of my cell phone to zoom in, searching for interesting plants or water reflections, so what the viewer sees is in a painting is an enlarged close-up of aspects of nature that they might not ordinarily notice, such as the pattern of vines clinging to a tree trunk. Then I draw out a composition, supplying images from my imagination. Atmospheric glazes give the paintings a dreamlike departure from reality. A painting is not finished until it possesses a powerful presence.
Exhibitions:
Upcoming: Jan.1-25, Solo show, Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Beaux Arts annual exhibit. 2021. Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach
CityArts of Orlando. FLAG Area V exhibit. 2021
Bradenton Arts Center. Beaux Arts group show. 2021
Dunedin Fine Arts Center. FLAG annual exhibit. 2021
Art League of Daytona Beach. Figuratively Speaking.
2021. 1stPlace.
Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Layers. 2021Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Trouble in Paradise. 2021
Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Unforeseen Journeys. 2021
Art League of Daytona Beach, Florida. America,
Then and Now. 2021.
Art League of Daytona Beach, Florida. Member’s Show. Award of Distinction. 2021
Art League of Daytona Beach, Florida. Group show
with Beaux Arts of Central Florida. 2020
Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. RED.
Group show. 2020
Winter Garden City Hall, Florida. Homegrown.
Group Show. 2020
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida. Group show with Beaux Arts of Central Florida. 2020
Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, Florida. Group show (FLAG). 2020
Orange County Central Library, Orlando, Florida. Group show
with Beaux Arts of Central Florida. 2020
Enterprise Museum, Florida, Solo Show. 2020
Off the Beaten Path, Volusia County, Florida. Open studios event. 2020.
Senior Resource Alliance, Orlando,
Florida. Group show. 2020
Ronald McDonald Charities, Orlando, Florida. Permanent Collection. 2020
Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Permanent Collection. 2020
Artist’s Residency, Chalk Hill Vineyards,
Healdsburg, California. 2019
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida. First Thursdays single night event. 2019
The Casements, Ormond Beach, Florida, Solo Show: Native Boundaries 2019
Deland City Hall, Deland, Florida, Solo Show: Volusia County and Other Places 2019
Daytona Art League, Daytona Florida, Figuratively Speaking, juried exhibition. Award recipient 2019.
Daytona Art League Member’s Show. Award recipient. 2019.
The Hub on Canal, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, Solo show: The Act of Leaving. 2017
pARTners: teachers and students exhibit together. Harris House Gallery/Atlantic Center for the Arts. 2017
Off the Beaten Path, Volusia County, Florida.
Open studios event. 2016.
Frosted: group exhibition. The Hub on Canal. 2016
Paint Strong Orlando, Orlando Public Library, 2016
The Hub on Canal, Exhibiting Artist, 2015-16
Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour, Deland, Florida, 2015
Gallery Flux, Ashland, Virginia juried exhibition, 2014
Gateway Center for The Arts, Member’s show, 2014
Daytona Art League, Member’s show, 2014
Daytona Art League, Member’s show, 2013
Deland Fall Festival of the Arts, Educator’s Exhibit, 2013
West Side Story, with Martin Hurtado,
Peabody Auditorium, 2013
Applaud that Woman, group show, Florida Museum for Women Artists, 2013
Debary City Hall, solo show, 2012
Teachers Hang it Up, Four Volusia County Art Educators, Peabody Auditorium, 2012
River Springs Middle School Library, solo show, 2011
Annual Art Teacher’s Exhibit: Daytona Art League, 2009;
Art Haus, 2010-2014
Deland Fall Festival of the Arts, 1994
Daytona Beach Community College, West Campus,
solo show, 1994
MFA Thesis Show, San Francisco State University/Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse, San Francisco, 1991 Group show,
San Francisco State University,
Stephen Stillwell Scholarship Exhibition, 1989
Café Francisco, solo show, 1987
A.R.E. Gallery, group show with Karyn Yandow
and Rachel Orkin, 1984
New College of California, solo show, 1980
Professional Organizations:
Beaux Arts of Central Florida, (current)
The Art League of Daytona Beach, (current)
The Hub on Canal (2015-2018)
Education:
MFA
San Francisco State University,
San Francisco, California
BFA
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
1980-2019
Full time Artist, 2017-2019
Art Educator, Volusia County Schools, 1995-2017
Adjunct Professor, Daytona Beach Community College, 1993-2003
Gallery Assistant Director, Curator, A.R.E. Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. 1980-1984
Gallery Assistant, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, Ca., 1983-1985
Archival Framer, Crown Point Press, Oakland, Ca., 1980-1984